Milad Fadai

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In late January, Iranian authorities waged the largest crackdown
on the press since 2009, detaining a wave of journalists and issuing arrest
warrants for numerous others. The Ministry of Intelligence accused
the journalists of conspiring with foreign media to repeat the alleged
"sedition" of 2009, referring to electoral fraud exposed by the media
and the protests that followed. In response to the arrests, IranWire, a project
led by our colleague Maziar
Bahari, produced this video calling for the journalists' release.

Iran has maintained a revolving-door policy for imprisoning
journalists, freeing some detainees on furloughs even as new arrests are made.
In its December 2012 prison
census, CPJ found that Iran was the world's second-worst jailer of
journalists, with 45 journalists imprisoned in reprisal for their work. The
threat of imprisonment has led scores of Iranian journalists to flee into exile in recent years.